11.   As Canadian national symbols go, the royal lion of the governor general is not nearly as famous as the red maple leaf or the beaver.

12.   As Osborne appealed to the Supreme Court, a national debate has risen in defense of the endangered national symbol.

13.   As a mother and national symbol of the glory of empire, however, she has been unheroic, chilly and dull.

14.   As national symbols go, China could do worse.

15.   Before Communism, Poland used a gold-crowned eagle as its national symbol.

16.   Because Russians will not automatically put up with pain and sacrifice anymore just to preserve some national symbols.

17.   A team coached by a man named Marvin Wood became the national symbol of the Indiana basketball experience.

18.   But if they did, the team would be a national symbol for failure, in spite of its four previous Super Bowl victories.

19.   But he also concedes that he is nearly powerless to alter his image as a national symbol of bigotry and rogue police work.

20.   But his death has already been portrayed as a national symbol of the decline of Russian science.